"A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation."

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Raymond Queneau

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“If shoppers looked at crooked carrots, misshapen potatoes, slightly dinged apples or too-small peaches and thought, wow, that looks delicious, imagine the benefits for struggling farmers.”

Source : "How ugly food can end hunger". Interview with Lauren Lee-Johnson, edition.cnn.com. November 23, 2015.
“Goodbye, you who are, for me, the postmarks again of shattered towns--Xenia, Burnt Cabins, Hornell-- their loneliness given away in poems, only their solitude kept.”
“Songwriters I've always been drawn to are people who deal with something of depth in the lyric writing. ...I've always been influenced by the folk song, the storytelling tradition in folk music. And so for years I wrote mostly story songs. I still do that, but as I've gone on, it's gotten a little more personal. I used to write mostly in the third person. I write a little more in the first person now.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Well, I like shopping.”

Source : "Exclusive Song Premiere and Interview: ‘Don’t Wake Me Up,’ Lianne La Havas". Interview with Zack Etheart, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 7, 2012.
“I don't read reviews and I don't know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.”
“It all comes back to the basics. Serve customers the best-tasting food at a good value in a clean, comfortable restaurant, and theyll keep coming back.”
“Domestic work, is, after all, both tedious and repetitive, and it is not surprising that most women and all men avoid as much of it as possible.”

Source : "Pakistan must not be abandoned" by Mohsin Hamid, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2001.
“I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to it.”

Source : "Furor on Memo At World Bank". www.nytimes.com. February 7, 1992.

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